“We should not be haunted by the specter of being automated out of work. We should be excited by that. But the reason we’re not excited by it is because we live in a society where if you don’t have a job, you are left to die. And that is, at its core, our problem.” - @AOC

It also feels like the idea here is to transcend and include capitalism. Not throw it out entirely. So, important to build on the term conceptually. This feels more representative of progressive millennial thinking.

‘When we talk about ideas like democratic socialism, it means putting democracy and society first, instead of capital first; it doesn’t mean that the actual concept of capitalistic society should be abolished." - @AOC